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Benicio del Toro

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (Latin American Spanish: [beˈnisjo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, a Goya Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Silver Bear. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide. Del Toro made his film debut in Big Top Pee-wee (1988) before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), followed by roles in Basquiat (1996), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Snatch (2000). He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a morally upright police officer in the Steven Soderbergh crime drama Traffic (2000). He was nominated in the same category for his role as an ex-con in Alejandro González Iñárritu's thriller 21 Grams (2003). He has since acted in Sin City (2005), Che (2008), Savages (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015), No Sudden Move (2021), and One Battle After Another (2025).  He also took on franchise roles such as Lawrence Talbot in The Wolfman (2010), the Collector in three films from 2013 to 2018 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and DJ, the codebreaker, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). On television, he portrayed Richard Matt in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benicio del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025
One Battle After Another

as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos

Movie
2025
The Phoenician Scheme

as Zsa-zsa Korda

Movie
2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

as Moses Rosenthaler

Movie
2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado

as Alejandro Gillick

Movie
2018
Avengers: Infinity War

as The Collector

Movie
2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

as DJ

Movie
2015
Sicario

as Alejandro Gillick

Movie
2014
Guardians of the Galaxy

as The Collector

Movie
2008
Che: Part One

as Ernesto Che Guevara

Movie
2005
Sin City

as Jackie Boy

Movie
2001
The Pledge

as Toby Jay Wadenah

Movie
2000
Snatch

as Franky Four Fingers

Movie
1995
The Usual Suspects

as Fenster

Movie
1989
Licence to Kill

as Dario

Movie